He then took aim at a rumor, spawned last Friday by security researchers, that hackers had compromised millions of credit card numbers, and were trying to pawn the list for big money through back channel chat rooms.

“To my knowledge, there is no truth to this report of a list, or that Sony was offered an opportunity to purchase the list,” said Seybold.

He also clarified a previous point about customer passwords, which he says–while not encrypted–were “transformed using a cryptographic hash function.” They weren’t stored as clear text, in other words.